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Apr 30 2015

TransUnion Report on Consumer Health Financial Exposure

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
TransUnion Healthcare issued a report on how patients are coping with the ongoing financial pressures related to their health care.
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Apr 29 2015

The Individual Mandate and Penalties

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A report from Avalere suggests that the penalty for failing to have health insurance is too low to incent people to enroll.
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Apr 28 2015

Medicare’s Early ACO Experience

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Research in the New England Journal of Medicine evaluates early results from Medicare's Pioneer accountable care organization initiative.
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Apr 27 2015

The Role of Retail Health Clinics

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report explores the ongoing expansion of retail health clinics.
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Apr 24 2015

EEOC’s Wellness Regulations

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Wellness programs received long-awaited "guidance" from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on avoiding disability discrimination issues. Gotta love those bureaucrats, what we do without them.
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Apr 23 2015

Venture Activity in Q1 2015

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The National Venture Capital Association releases stats on first quarter 2015 venture capital activity.
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Apr 22 2015

ADP Health Benefits Report

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
ADP released a survey of large firms regarding their health benefits.
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Apr 21 2015

Waste in Health Spending, How Much is There Really?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A new paper from NBER examines the concept that extensive amounts of health care is "wasted" in the US and why that might be so.
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Apr 20 2015

Physician EHR Survey

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Accenture surveyed physicians in six countries regarding use of health information technology.
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Apr 17 2015

Employee Survey on Health Benefits

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Benz Communications conducted a survey of employees on views of employee health benefits.
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Kevin RocheThe Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.

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This is an outstanding report on total global drug spending and trends, with projections out to 2025.  It helps you understand this important area of health care, which does much...
June 1, 2021
The Office of the Actuary annual report on national health spending, covering 2018.
December 7, 2019
2019 Kaiser Family Foundation Employer Health Benefits Report
October 1, 2019
MedPAC 2019 Report to Congress
June 18, 2019

Headlines

Thyme Care decides its time to party, spicing up its business with a fresh $125 million in capital, with a valuation of over $2 billion.  The company helps manage cancer...
September 3, 2026
Virtual physical therapy company Sword Health sticks it to shareholders by acquiring virtual mental health company Headspace in an all cash deal valued at somewhere between $200 million and $300...
August 29, 2026
Cityblock raises $116 million in new capital, partly to help with the acquisition of Homeward Health.  Cityblock coordinates and provides care in urban settings and Homeward is focused on rural...
August 21, 2026
Happy Health is ecstatic to raise $75 million in new capital for its home health monitoring platform, which helps manage sleep apnea and other problems.  We will see how ecstatic...
August 20, 2026

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About This Blog

The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry through Roche Consulting, LLC. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com. © Roche Consulting, LLC. Terms of Use.

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